Texas Constitution talk:Article III, Section 56: Difference between revisions

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-Sec. 311.022.  PROSPECTIVE OPERATION OF STATUTES.  A statute is presumed to be prospective in its operation unless expressly made retrospective.
+Sec. 311.022: A statute is presumed to be prospective in its operation unless expressly made retrospective.
 First, construe entire statute. change to administrator one way? in other words, no authority to move back to county clerk. only prospective? Then argue effect of 2023 amendment.
+Sec. 12.034(a): The commissioners court by written order may rescind the order designating the county clerk as the voter registrar at any time after two years have elapsed from the date the order was adopted, to become effective on a date stated in the order.
 Law being made theoretically, not for a day, but for all time, a statute applicable to cities of certain population is a general law when it establishes a rule for the prospective government or regulation of all such cities as may, in the course of time, reach the prescribed population; but where the statute obviously acts only on a present state of facts in such cities and cannot by possibility apply to other cities that may attain, in future, such population, it is local, special and void.